I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.

A dog barks, but a lion strikes.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.